THE parents of a champion skydiver killed in a freak accident paid tribute to a "bright, beautiful girl" who died doing something she adored.

Tamsin Causer, 32, drowned on Saturday after landing in the sea. She had been knocked unconscious in a mid-air collision with a friend over Empuriabrava in north-east Spain and was unable to activate her parachute.

Miss Causer, who lived with her parents in Greenfields Road, Horsham, after she left university, was part of a group of 30 people jumping from a plane at about 12,500ft.

Her father Graham said: "It was a tragic accident. Things like this don't happen very often in skydiving.

"She was always a wild girl and very adventurous. She did everything. If she got a buzz from it then so much the better. She lived life to the full. She was a great kid having a great time and making the most of her life.

"Many skydivers from America and all over the world want to pay their tributes, so I'm sure there will be some sort of memorial. She was very well known."

Miss Causer's mother Hazel said: "She was my bright beautiful girl. She was adventurous and there was nothing she would not try. Her dearest wish was to be a stunt woman. My only comfort is she died doing something she absolutely adored."

Miss Causer, a marketing manager, had recently bought a house with her boyfriend, Gavin McLeod, 38, in Newell Green, Bracknell, Berkshire.

Born in Pakistan, where her father worked for the British Foreign Office, she did her first jump aged 17.

Kickboxing, skiing, fencing, motorcycling, trampolining and horse riding were among her other hobbies.

Miss Causer lived with her parents in Horsham during school holidays between 1984 and 1990 while she was at boarding school, and she lived there again for two years after finishing a history degree at Birmingham University.

A spokesman for SkyDive Empuriabrava, which helped organise Saturday's jump, said he believed Miss Causer was knocked unconscious when another skydiver's leg hit her head.

He said: "It was very bad luck, a one in a million chance. As the skydivers were exiting the plane, Tamsin was knocked out, which made it impossible for her to fly her parachute. She landed in the sea.

"Tamsin was a very experienced skydiver. It was a freak accident, very unlucky. In this case there was no human error, just extremely bad luck."

In February Miss Causer became the first person ever to hold four world parachuting records at once when she was among 960 people involved in a mass free fall in Thailand.

Before that she was one of 151 women who broke the record for the largest all-female free-fall formation.

She also took part in an 85-person canopy formation and a 400-strong free-fall formation.